The Future of English Language Teaching (FOELT) 2020

SUMMARY

The 5th annual Future of English Language Teaching Conference of 2020 attracted just under 3000 delegates representing 93 countries.

The plenaries and breakout sessions throughout the day included presentations on the following themes:

- - - - Young Learners
        
        English for Specific Purposes (ESP)
        
        Teacher Education
        
        Technology and Innovation

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

9:45 - 10:00	Registration
10:00 - 10:10	Introduction - Welcome and orientation
10:15 - 11:00	Breakout sessions 1: The Problem with 'English Class': Embedding as a tool for decolonisation, Sarah Vaghefian Using emotional intelligence to help your learners understand themselves, Alan Hall Model-free, guided discovery phonology: supporting learners' identities, goals and plurilingual futures, Adam Scott The psychology of assessment - Informing best practice through insights into positive psychology, Alex Thorp
11:00 - 11:15	Refreshment break
11:00 - 11:10	Pop-up presentation: What's new at Trinity College London?, Alison Castle Kane
11:15 - 12:00	Breakout sessions 2: Using forms for online examinations and practise, Pablo Morales This is not (just) a test: Computer-aided language assessment and syllabus link in the summer school industry, David Juhasz Workplace English language learning - Making it happen!, Gillian Kincaid-Dugen Targeting generation Z - How marketing strategy can advise ELT practice
12:00 - 12:45	Refreshment break
12:15 - 12:30	Poster Presentation: Personalised CPD, Yvert de Souza
12:45 - 13:30	Plenary 1: Digital literacy in a time of COVID, Philip Kerr
13:30 - 13:45	Refreshment break
13:45 - 14:30	Breakout sessions 3: Happiness and forging lifelong learners, Joe Brennan "Proper" English for a proper future - exposing young learners to world Englishes, Claudia Schiavon and Alan Hall Exploiting digital tools to enhance formative feedback and improve learning, Martin Oetegenn Do I need to attend another CPD session? Action research as a powerful alternative, Monika Wierzanska-Villar
14:30 - 14:45	Refreshment break
14:45 - 15:30	Breakout sessions 4: Enabling interaction: A study of examiner behaviour in an interactive speaking test, Richard Harris The importance of the young learner element of teacher training programmes, Simon Dunton Creating transformational learning experiences in teenage classrooms, Kate Smook The future is plurilingual. Let's make teaching qualifications plurilingual too, Ben Beaumont
15:30 - 15:45	Refreshment break
15:45 - 16:30	Plenary 2: Key teacher competences in the 2020's, Thom Kiddle
16:30 - 16:45	Closing comments and farewell